Kino travels the world's countries three days at a time astride Hermes, her talking motorrad. Each stop surfaces a different way of living: some content, some corrupt, some quietly doomed. Kino observes them all without ever staying long enough to change anything. This manga adaptation folds in four extra chapters beyond the light-novel stories it draws on. A second, separate manga adaptation by a different artist covers a different set of episodes from the same source material.